They were born two days apart, more than 80 m high, well settled in a nest box sheltered from the wind.
Two peregrine falcons were born on April 27 and 29, within the bell tower of the cathedral of Albi, the only one of this type in an urban environment in Occitania.
A birth followed live by the webcam installed by the city for nearly 15 years in partnership with the League for the Protection of Birds to follow the reproduction of this protected species.
With the intensive use of pesticides, it must be said that at the end of the 1980s, the Tarn department only had three couples.
At the end of that decade, a first pair was observed near the cathedral.
Despite the installation of a nest box in 1989, it took until 2001 to see the first eggs hatch.
Since then, more than forty falcons have taken off from the bell tower of the largest brick cathedral in the world, listed by Unesco.
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